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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1934
Page
13
Finishing touches remain for Bever and EMIs park roads before full traffic access. Barricades will be removed in days as a crushed rock and asphalt surface is laid. About $7000 to $8000 has been spent on surfacing with plans to extend to a permanent two year program.
Several changes updated the street showers under Martground commission. The O avenue and Eighth street NW shower moves to Tavenue and Eighth NW. a new shower opens at Ta avenue and Fifth Street NW with 29m Thursday slots. The D Street and Twentieth Avenue shower is discontinued.
Linn County officials explain the old age pension law as three commissioners will serve without compensation. Cory Mo Jacobs director of relief, Robert W. Greene assistant county treasurer, and John M. Barth of Cedar Rapids named to the Linn County Old Age Pension Commission. The board convened Wednesday morning to set the plan.
A fragment notes that a college student and his wife are living in a tent in TANSING. The text is garbled but indicates a temporary shelter situation and a referenced Cop State or similar authority. No clear dates or places beyond the tent living note.
Irene Blunt, secretary of the National Federation of Textiles, discusses delegating authority, hiring a capable housekeeper, and keeping office and home duties separate. She balances leadership roles with family life, vacationing alone each year, and guiding her twins Tom and Dick, who differ greatly in personality yet share equal treatment.
In Gary Indiana a woman known as Mrs Sage and Polly Hamilton are linked to Dillinger. Police reveal Mrs Sage was questioned for harboring a criminal and involved with Dillinger in his final days. A scarlet dress and a watch photo linked Mrs Keele to the killer’s last hours. Federal agents escort Mrs Sage from the Sheffield station as Purvis and Cowley oversee the case.
Police examined a death of a war veteran named Stoneking who was found near Glass road crossing. Investigators believe he may have been returning from a garden area a few blocks away. Funeral services are set for 1:30 pm Thursday at Beatts chapel with American Legion involvement. Burial will follow in Campbell Cemetery, six miles east of Cedar Rapids on highway 30.
Aimee Semple McPherson head of Angelus Temple stayed in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday meeting the Winns at 1825 Fighth Avenue. She arranged music at Angelus Temple station Tuesday and left for Chicago that night with Rev Myron Sackett. The Winns, who have joined evangelistic services with McPherson in Montana and Minnesota, plan to return to Los Angeles in fall.
A Monocoupe cabin type monoplane is being built in St Louis for Col Charles A Lindbergh. The aircraft measures 20 feet 9 inches long with a 32 foot wingspan and a 145 horsepower engine. It will reach 160 miles per hour with blind-landing instruments extra fuel tanks and wing flaps to slow speed to 45 miles an hour. Estimated cost is 7600 dollars and the cabin seats two passengers side by side.
George W. Zinger of Chicago was charged with speeding sixty eight mph on Mount Vernon Avenue SE. A speed test by Patrolman Albert Wilson showed the car reached sixty mph, eight under the charge, leaving police to dismiss the case after the test and release the Zingers.
Federal investigators disclosed they seek a Chicago gambler known only as Fish Johnson as the mastermind behind John Dillinger. He allegedly organized hideouts and acted as a fence for loot, with past rewards including 53 000 in bonds. Harry Pierpont, Dillinger's chief lieutenant, is in the death house at Ohio State Prison.
A policeman was killed during a raid at a South Bend bank on June 30. The robbers took $28,300 in cash and fled the scene.
Shelburne Falls Massachusetts reports Jacob Thieringer retires from the Lamson and Goodnow cutlery plant after 69 years riveting knife handles. He notes his legs failed him and his father and three sons also worked there.
Hurricane winds from Galveston Island to near Port O Connor battered the Texas coastline. A coast guard patrol boat was dispatched after a steamer radioed 80 mph winds at Galveston and Freeport, with Velasco winds listed between 75 and 90 mph. Marooned people reported, including 18 at San Luis Pass station. Damage total unavailable.
OGDEN Utah UP rose bushes not blooming. Forest service officials run the western United States only lab that diagnoses rose bush diseases. Chemists test soil nitrogen and water-holding properties to find non productivity causes. Head C L Forsling leads the shrub clinic. The lab mainly serves crops but offers rose bush aid on request.
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